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Yes, assuming the ion device does sufficient ion damage, you could lock it down while it was on cooldown. Note that if you only do partial ion damage you'll reduce the effective level of the cloak. Though that is typically more than enough; a cloak has a pretty long cooldown by weapon standards. You can keep shooting him too, and it will keep adding ion damage. I've never seen ion damage pile up I should note; I said it "reset the timer" but it's possible I was just seeing ion damage when the previous "debuff" had run out.

Ah. Sadly, not as good as I had hoped - was hoping that the similar countdowns would mean the five seconds would add to the recharge time.
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Allen GouldOct 13 '12 at 0:47

That's not what he's asking. He's asking if the two are the same thing. If it expanded the cooldown of the cloak, the effectiveness wouldn't be reduced, but delayed. Reset the cooldown period to what? There's no default "ion cooldown". Shooting it with more ion damage will add to the counter, not reset it. Increasing the power increases the duration of the cloak. Hitting a lvl 3 cloak with 1 ion damage will decrease the duration of the cloak by 5 seconds. That doesn't tell us if the cloak has to go on or off during the ion damage counter for it to affect the duration.
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user47135Apr 17 '13 at 19:37